If not for decades of Western - especially the United States' - racism and bigotry, legitimate elected governments would today decide and execute policy not only in Egypt, but probably also in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain and other countries whose governments are today effectively Western colonies in the Middle East.

This blog examines the damage being done to hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East by that racism and bigotry.

Saturday, July 02, 2011

TEHRAN, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said that the Bushehr nuclear power plant will join the national grid in September, the State IRIB TV website reported on Monday.

In fresh remarks on Sunday night, Salehi said that Iran will celebrate joining of the Bushehr nuclear power plant to the national grid in early September, said the report.

I'll be happy when it opens, but I don't have any expectations that it will open in the foreseeable future. Iran's nuclear issue though, is becoming generally less important. After Egypt's elections, the US likely will have fewer diplomatic resources and less energy to devote to hampering Iran's nuclear program.

We will eventually see Bushehr operational, and Iran, contrary to US offers, will not have to give up its uranium enrichment capabilities to get it on line. But we are unlikely to see it operational in 2011.